Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Myers Martindale Felder

Full Name: Myers Martindale Felder
Other surnames: Felde
Birth date: July 13, 1832
Death date: March 11, 1899

Terms of Service

House, 22nd ⁽²⁾ Legislature
1/13/1891 - 1/10/1893
Democrat
House, 21st ⁽¹⁾ ⁽³⁾ Legislature
1/8/1889 - 1/13/1891
Democrat

(1) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives .
(2) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives .
(3) M.M. Felde, Brenham. Roster of Representatives of the 21st Legislature, "Twenty-First Legislature: Members of the House, Address, Occupation and Politics," Galveston Daily News, 1/5/1889, p. 2, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. M.M. Felder, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Confederate States Army, Company E, 5th Texas Infantry, Hood's Texas Brigade, enlisted 7/19/1851 at Washington, Texas, discharge 2/14/1863 at Columbia, South Carolina, as a Private; records show as M.M. Felder, also born as Miers Felder, according to War Department Memo. Miles Martindale Felder, death date 3/11/1899 in Washington County, Texas; widow Mrs. M.M. Felder, marriage date 12/26/1896 in Oktibbeha, Mississippi. Pension File No. 47995, Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Miers Felder, Corporal, U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865. Ancestry.com .
Confederate States Army, 1st Corporal, Company E, 5th Regiment, Texas Infantry. Military grave marker, M.M. Felder, birth date 7/13/1832 in Laurens County, South Carolina, death date 3/11/1899, burial in Masonic Cemetery, Chappell Hill, Washington County. Find a Grave .
Myers Martindale Felder, Democrat, farmer, age 71 in 1891, born in South Carolina. Legislative Reference Library Card File .
Portrait and biographical sketch, Myers Martindale Felder, pp. 338-342. Born 7/13/1832 in Laurens District, South Carolina. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature 1889.
Portrait and biographical sketch, Myers Martindale Felder, pp. 674-677. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Miers M. Felder, Chapter 4, Hood's Texas Brigade Moves into Action, about Miers and his cousin Rufus King Felder, pp. 45-57 (including Mr. and Mrs. Miers Felder and Children, photo, pp. 53-54). Miers M. Felder wounded at Second Manassas, discharge from the service on 2/14/1863, and married Catherine Felder in Chappell Hill on 12/31/1863, p. 101. Biographical sketch and drawing, pp. 202-205, served in Texas Legislature in 1889 and 1891, died 3/11/1899. The Confederates of Chappell Hill, Texas: Prosperity, Civil War and Decline 2005.